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| 3752044580 | Tropes | figures of speech with an unexpected twist in the meaning of words. | 0 | |
| 3752044581 | Metaphor | a stated comparison between two unlike things. "A sea of troubles." | 1 | |
| 3752045845 | Simile | an explicit comparison between two unlike things with the use of "like" or "as: "I as tired as a dog." | 2 | |
| 3752045846 | Personification | attributing human qualities to an inanimate object: "The tired chair..." | 3 | |
| 3752046936 | Imagery | sight, sound, touch, taste, smell-effect: allows the reader to more fully participate in the work with images and experiences that they can tie directly or indirectly; typically an emotional appeal. | 4 | |
| 3752046937 | Pun | A play on the meaning of words, "a mender of soles" Julius Caesar. | 5 | |
| 3752048488 | Irony (verbal) | the speaker means something other than what is said; the unexpected; a difference between what is stated to be literally true and what the reader know to be true. | 6 | |
| 3752048489 | Hyperbole | exaggeration; deliberate exaggeration for emphasis, "I am so hungry I could eat a horse!" | 7 | |
| 3752049904 | Catachresis | a completely impossible figure of speech "The tears falling from her eyes were so sad they too began to cry with her." | 8 | |
| 3752049905 | Meiosis | understatement (opposite of exaggeration) "I was somewhat worried when the psychopath ran toward me with a chainsaw." (i.e., I was terrified) | 9 | |
| 3752054749 | Synecdoche | one word that makes the reader think of all things in the class , so "all hands on deck" refers to all helpers. | 10 | |
| 3752054750 | Metonymy | designation of one thing with something closely associated with it. Thus we call the head of the committee the "chair", "crown" when referring to royalty, or "the man" when referring to government. | 11 | |
| 3752057277 | Oxymoron | contradiction; two contradictory terms or ideas used together. "Parting is such a sweet sorrow" or "Jumbo shrimp" | 12 | |
| 3752059086 | Paradox | a statement that appears to be contradictory but, in fact has some truth. "He worked hard at being lazy." | 13 | |
| 3752060636 | Onomatopoeia | refers to the use of words whose sounds reinforces their meaning: "cackle," "bang," or "pop." An auditory stimulus. | 14 | |
| 3752060637 | Juxtaposition | a literary device which is employed to bring out the similarities and differences between two stimulations, thoughts, characters, or emotions by placing them together. The characteristic of one makes those of the other prominent without the author having to separately sketch out the nuances of both separately. Ex: Michael Moore showing a war scene with the song "What a Wonderful World" | 15 | |
| 3752062805 | Euphemism | an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or harsh: "Passing on" or "kick the bucket" in reference to a death. | 16 | |
| 3752062806 | Allusion | a reference to another text or assumed knowledge of a reference; an allusion references and draws on the authority of the alluded work and connect the reader with the author by assuming common knowledge; typically historical, literary, Biblical, and/or current event- "The adventure was an Odyssey to a world unknown." | 17 | |
| 3752064580 | Schemes | figures of speech that deal with word order, syntax, letters, and sounds, rather than the meaning of words. | 18 | |
| 3752064581 | Syntax | the intentional emphasis on word order; structure of a sentence or phrase; to analyze syntax one can consider sentence form and structure, repetition, and/or punctuation. | 19 | |
| 3752064582 | Alliteration | repetition of the same sound at the beginning of successive words; effect: to increase memory retention, add emphasis and/ or to create rhythm: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." | 20 | |
| 3752066353 | Parallelism | a set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses: "He walked to the store; he walked to the store; he walked to the library; he walked to the apartment." "That government of the people, by the people, and for the people..." | 21 | |
| 3752069341 | Chiasmus | grammatical structure when the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words. Reversing the syntactical order emphasizes the reversal in meaning and thus reinforces the contrast. Useful in writing to emphasize differences or contrast in meaning: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." | 22 | |
| 3752069342 | Diction | analyze only unusual word choice such archaic language or especially evocative choices that contain powerful connotations. | 23 | |
| 3752070620 | Anastrophe | inverted word order from what one expects. "One ad does not a survey make." | 24 | |
| 3752077728 | Antithesis | the placing of opposing or contrasting ideas and/ or words within the same sentence or very close together to emphasize their disparity: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." | 25 | |
| 3752077729 | Asyndeton | conjunctions are omitted, producing fast-paced and rapid prose to speed up the reader so as to have the reader experience the events along with the rapid succession: "I woke up, got out of bed, pulled on my clothes, rushed out the door." | 26 | |
| 3752083462 | Polysyndeton | the use of many conjunctions has the opposite effect of asyndeton; it slows the pace of the reader but the effect is to possibly overwhelm the reader with details thus connecting the reader and the persona to the same experience- may also be called cataloging: "My mother cooked roast turkey and cornbread stuffing and sweet potatoes and peas and apple pie. | 27 | |
| 3752086086 | Anapodoton | deliberately creating a sentence fragment. "If only you came with me!" | 28 | |
| 3752088754 | Erotema | asking a rhetorical question to the reader as a thought-provoking tool before proceeding. "What should honest citizens do?" | 29 | |
| 3752088755 | Anaphora | a form of a regular repetition of the same word or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or strategically placed paragraphs/ repetition of key phrases. "I have a dream..." | 30 | |
| 3752090027 | Repetition | repeated use of words, phrases, or clauses to emphasize its meaning. | 31 | |
| 3752098523 | Tone | the accumulated and implied attitude towards the subject reached by analyzing diction, detail, syntax, and all other figurative language elements. | 32 | |
| 3752098524 | Tone Shift | because tone radiates from the author, through a speaker(s) or narrator(s) and then to the reader, a tone shift indicates a shift in attitude about the subject. A tone shift may be the result of a change in speaker, subject, audience, or intention. The shift may indicate irony, but a deeper and more complex understanding of the topic, a new way of addressing the topic, etc. Notice how and why the tone shift occurs and utilize two contrasting tone words to express the change and its effect. This will tie to the argument or point of view perhaps highlighting a change in position. | 33 |
